Summer 2017

EDUCATION: BA in Philosophy, University of California Berkeley, 2002 MA in Philosophy, San Francisco State University, 2004

MA THESIS: The Concept and Practices of the Self: Fanon___ЕЅ█А_К__Ѕ█А_К____Л______ынЅ█А_К____Л____Ѕ█А_К__s Problematic and Foucault___ЕЅ█А_К__Ѕ█А_К____Л______ынЅ█А_К____Л____Ѕ█А_К__s Techniques of Self, 2004

I have been a political activist (peaceful) in Iran and was arrested and spent seven years as a prisoner of conscience in Iran's prisons (1981-1989). I started reading philosophy in prisons and while I was never sure that one day I would be released from prison alive, I was determined that I would pursue philosophy if I had a second chance to live. And I had. So in 1993 I migrated to the US after being discharged from prison (1989) and started my education at UC Berkeley (BA), San Francisco State University (SFSU, MA), and UC Irvine (Phd incomplete).

During these years I have taught the following courses: Critical Thinking, Intro to Logic, Intro to Philosophy, Intro to Ethics, Comparative Religions, Social and Political philosophy, Modern philosophy, Theories of the good life, philosophy of Love, Law, Society, Morality (on criminal justice system), Imagination and Creativity, Existential philosophy.